Last week, we at AL.com presented our early predictions for a preseason Top 25, with defending national champ Florida State sitting atop the poll followed by Auburn at No. 2 and Alabama at No. 3.

This week, we present our predicted order of finish in the SEC. I have joined Alabama beat writers Andrew Gribble and Michael Casagrande and Auburn beat writers Joel A. Erickson and Brandon Marcello in projecting how the SEC race will shake out this fall and then tallied up the votes, with first-place teams getting 7 points, second-place teams getting 6 and so on.

While we have Auburn as the team to beat in the SEC going into the season, we have a different outcome coming out at the end. Our pollsters project a rematch of Alabama's 32-38 2012 SEC championship game win over Georgia, with the Tide again prevailing.